Honey..

I seriously cannot stop eating it. I love it.

I have had 4 slices of honey toast today. It isn't a normal serving of honey though, I put so much on it drips of the bread.
My house is pretty much covered in honey. I just wanted to know how bad it actually is for me.

Thanks.

my non honey expert opinion...........too much bread might make you larger if you don't eat it at correct times and its bad bread (like more sugars in it etc..)

honey is not a refined sugar like regular white sugar so its prolly better as a sweetener than white or brown sugars.

i myself use a bit of honey for sweetener instead of regular sugars but i don't dump it on in ooozing messes that coat my walls and floors.

remember honey that all good things in moderation can help guide your way.

regards,
oscar

Honey and table sugar both contain glucose and fructose. Honey is monosaccharides, and table sugar is sucrose, which is fructose and glucose hooked together. Sucrose is broken down into glucose and fructose by the body. Chemically, they are not identical, but pretty close. Sugar is sugar is sugar regardless of the source.

Honey has 64 calories/tbspn and table sugar has 46. The advantage is that many people say honey is "sweeter" (fructose is sweeter than glucose, and honey has more fructose), and tend to use less of it than regular sugar. However, it sounds like you are getting an awful lot, and if you are using, say 1 1/2 tblspn honey on 4 pieces of toast, that is 6 tblspn, which is 256 empty calories.

If you use high fiber whole wheat bread, this is going to be more beneficial than say, wonderbread. Wonderbread has 110 calories/2slices, 3g fiber, 1g sugar, and 14g "other" (starches etc). (Four slices of high fiber bread is still a lot during the day, and you should probably focus the remainder of your daily carbs on vegetables)

Worst case then, (at 1 1/2tblspn honey per slice) you are getting over 696 extra calories per day, with little nutritional content, and 3g of fiber. Based on a 2000cal/day diet, this is nearly 1/3 of what you should eat each day, and meets much less than 1/3 of your nutritional needs. (Honey does have trace amounts of vitamins and minerals, as well as natural antibiotics. However, these amounts are negligible.)

The truth is, no added sugars contain many nutrients that are important for health. This is why highly sweetened products are referred to as "empty calories"

Thompson, Janice & Manore, Melinda. Nutrition for Life. San Fransisco, CA: Pearson Education Inc, 2010. p. 70.

A slcie of Wheatbread has roughly 14g Carbs, so you eat 56g, which is around 224 calories.

The problem is it's high GI, (70 approx), and whilst Bloodsugar is lower first thing, eating something that could cause roughly a 40% GL, (Bloodsugar spike).

That might be a little high, although the Honey is quite lower Gi, which would reduce the GI, but only GL, if it didn't seriously increase the total Carbs in the meal.

If you ate this stuff spaced throughout the day, that's not too bad, but if it was all at Breakfast, I'd cut it back ot 2-3 slices max.